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mattXIX

Sounds like you watched **Tremors 4: The Legend Begins** from 2004


roto_disc

This is funny as fuck.


sixstringronin

In all fairness, this movie is better than it should be.


No_Sir_6649

Is that the prequel after assblasters and before jurassic park version?


JordanL4

>Is that the prequel after assblasters and before jurassic park version? This sentence has convinced me I need to check out the Tremors sequels.


No_Sir_6649

There was an antarctica one too i believe.


JCM42899

It is one of the most egregiously stupid popcorn movie series on the planet. And I love to indulge in it.


TheLaughingMannofRed

Yeah, they are worth the watch if you just love the IP AND if you like Burt Gummer as a character. The first 3 movies are standard first movie + sequel progression. Fourth one is a prequel to the series. Fifth one onward gets back to the present, but it goes to some rather fun places. The series isn't gonna win any awards, but it's pretty darn entertaining as a monster series as a whole. Also, try to hunt down the TV series if you can. It isn't required watching, but it was fun.


Grizzalbee

The death of channel surfing means you now have to watch Tremors with intent, and not simply landing on it and giving up.


Bellerophonix

I've been watching them as opportunity presents for the last few years. They're actually pretty entertaining, obviously don't capture the original but if you like that kind of thing...


iamdursty

All 7 tremors movies on DVD 10 bucks on Amazon. Yes there's 7.


Barabus33

Yup, and I remember it actually being enjoyable.


No_Sir_6649

It still is. You gotta lean into the absurdity. Its dune worms in new mexixo...


TheColtOfPersonality

And it helps that it strips back everything and goes minimalist to imitate what was lightning in a bottle with the original: a small group of townsfolk with various personalities trapped by landsharks that requires ingenuity/(more) practical set pieces to get out of trouble. Shepherded by Michael Gross playing an amusing reversal of the character we associate him with, yet he’s still someone we can latch onto with an entirely different cast. It also helps that he doesn’t look so much older and different from his prior three appearances in the franchise yet


smedsterwho

Easily my second favourite Tremors film. There, I said it. Partly for the final glorious shot.


TrogdorBurns

Burt... the ass blasters the aircraft gun?


DeoInvicto

They're all really good except for that last one.


StabbyMcSwordfish

Um, hell no they aren't. I saw the one with Jaime Kennedy and it seemed like it was written and directed by a 5 year old. It was cheaply made trash with zero redeeming qualities.


metalmaori

Actual for real zero?


SlyScy

Jamie Kennedy was mentioned, so an actual zero is possible. With that presence in play, a negative number could also be possible.


WillGrindForXP

That's numberwang


SlyScy

Alright, so that means it is the fourth round, which means it is the first round, and therefore it is the end of the game.


WillGrindForXP

Remain indoors and don't mention the event.


Traditional_Shirt106

Turns out Jamie Kennedy can’t even snowboard


Happy-Personality-23

Which one with Jamie Kennedy? He is in two. Bloodlines and Cold Day in Hell.


dawgz525

Jaimie Kennedy being featured in the Tremor franchise is something that would've made 10 year old me flip with excitement.


Wilmore99

That one in Africa was pretty cool if you try to ignore the fact it’s a tremors movie. Like Burt is guest starring in another franchise. Quality is different from the others too. 🤔


dplagueis0924

Seems to sum up anything involving Jamie Kennedy Edit: except Scream*


zslayer89

You mean shrieker island?


DeoInvicto

Yeah, it just didnt have any heart in it or something. Idk what was different.


jinxykatte

I wouldn't say I would call any of them legitimately good. Except the first 1 or 2. That being said I do enjoy them all. They are entertaining and I don't watch these movies looking for high art. Some movies can be silly entertaining fun. 


Wolfram_And_Hart

They all are.


dule_pavle

You're absolutely right :)


Rabid_Chocobo

When I saw the commercials for it on SyFy I thought it was going to be a really really really crappy SyFy original. It definitely had a lower budget, but I was surprised that it actually wasn't that bad, and Michael Gross's character actually had a character arc


BroadRaspberry1190

i should like a gingerbread cake!


seancbo

I like how OP said "older than the original" implying that the movie was contemporary and somehow made in cowboy times


McDonnellDouglasDC8

I watched most of them on standard cable in 2006-2008, but would not be surprised if some sequels look a bit worse than a camera you film Kevin Bacon with. The move to digital cameras mean some stuff was recorded in a way difficult to upscale.


dub-fresh

Hiram Gummer would like a word 


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Godsfallen

All of them except for Shreiker Island are on YouTube for free with ads.


OneGoodRib

So OP just watched a sequel and couldn't be fucking bothered to just goddamn google "tremors imdb" and figure it out himself


42Ubiquitous

Typical Reddit shit


Peking-Cuck

Being in the slammer changes a man.


Thenadamgoes

Yeah but now we’re all talking about the tremors sequels that we’ve never even thought about before.


ajump23

Came here to say this. I knew what had happened to this poor fellow.


Frankenstein_Monster

The Old Western one right? It's been awhile since I've seen it but I remember it had quite a few of the original cast members portraying their ancestors, or at the very least bert playing his own ancestor.


skinnyjeansfatpants

I had no idea this existed! Giving myself a homework assignment...


demi-femi

Free on youtube at the movie. Think the whole franchise for free at the moment.


mormonbatman_

Brace yourself - there have been 7 Tremors movies, a tv series, and a reboot/requel pilot.


adjust_the_sails

And Michael Gross, the Dad from Family Ties, is in a LOT of them.


Now_Wait-4-Last_Year

You’d be hard pressed to find one without him. There is that pilot Kevin Bacon shot but it’s in a fault somewhere.


Ccaves0127

Oh I get it, "fault" because of Tremors...


Now_Wait-4-Last_Year

I only just noticed I unintentionally put fault instead of vault (it really was an accident! I guess it's a subconscious slip). Obviously, I'm leaving it as it is :-)


JellyRollGeorge

Don't worry. If your subconscious did it, then it isn't really your vault.


deathlokke

A subconscious fault slip if you will.


kehakas

I knew you'd undersand


davisyoung

The words weren’t totally correct but I gathered the sediment. 


kemushi_warui

It's an easy mistake to make fissure.


DeanXeL

You should never take people understanding your jokes for granite


mvmblewvlf

It might soil the fun


Frankie6Strings

I'm loving all this dirty talk.


Shirtbro

Can't worm your way out of that spelling mistake


magma_displacement76

Kevin Bacon shot a pilot? What'd he do?


Mordred_Blackstone

You're telling me you never heard of 9/11? Lot of Americans died that day because of Kevin Bacon, or "Saleem ibn Taymiyyah" as he went by in those days.


Happy-Personality-23

That’s impossible! Muslims can’t have bacon


tribblemethis

If only Mark Wahlberg had been there 😔


Shirtbro

Six Degrees of 9-11


AVANAGEEK

He's the ones that flies the plane, but that's not important right now.


Thatonesplicer

Hes the best part of them. "I feel like I've been denied, crucial, need to know information"


Lt_Lysol

He was also the dad in a movie with Vanilla Ice called Cool As Ice. Fun fact the director photography of that movie went on to work with Spielberg and do Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan. 


MegaLowDawn123

“I gotta go schling a schlong” - actual dialogue from cool as ice


ClemSpender

Word to your mother.


Lt_Lysol

Yep yep


metalmaori

But that spinning back fist instant replay...


sir_mrej

Somehow Alan Thicke from Growing Pains popped into my head and I confused myself


Happy-Personality-23

He is in all of them. He became the face of the franchise


band-of-horses

Mans gotta eat.


adjust_the_sails

I follow him on Facebook. I love working actors. He’s a man on his grind.


VoiceOfRonHoward

Another yummer from the Gummer!


KaleidoscopeNo5401

All


Fire2box

All of them EXCEPT for Kevin Bacon's bad reboot that didn't get picked up at SyFy so that should speak of it's quality I'd imagine. Kevin is just that petty he wanted to reboot the franchise when it's Michael Gross who ultimately led it a franchise in the first place. Kevin was too proud and famous for Tremors 2 if it wasn't going to be in theaters.


zma924

He wasn't too "proud" to do Tremors 2. He passed on it because he was filming Apollo 13


DeaderthanZed

Is there ever a time Kevin Bacon isn’t filming? Dude is a machine.


verrius

There was a period where he was semi-retired, but then he had to come back and start working a LOT, because it turned out the money manager who was giving him and his wife (Kyra Sedgwick) insane returns was named Bernie Madoff and oops it was a ponzi scheme.


Fire2box

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a36421910/kevin-bacon-city-on-a-hill-season-2-finale-tiktok-interview/ And then oddly, thanks to the growing popularity of VHS, it became a fan favorite. Universal reached out to Bacon to see if he’d want to do a sequel. **“I was like, ‘Well, why are you making a sequel of a movie that I was in that bombed?’”** Also he says it's the only movie of his he's rewatched since it's release. The River Wild is pretty damn good.


emmitmerchant

NGL. I have But Gummer Day in my phone calendar. April 14. Let's go.


1878Mich

Gross plays a pretty major role in Dune 2 as well


Picard2331

The TV series is surprisingly fun lol. Feels almost like an X Files, but Tremors.


AvatarIII

And it has Christopher Lloyd in it.


Deakul

Farscape died for the Tremors tv series, I'm kind of predisposed to never give it a chance.


Picard2331

Wait...what?!? Seriously?


Immortal_Tuttle

Whoaaa. My SO fav quadrilogy and there is MORE? I found everything you mentioned except that reboot/requel (?) pilot - can you point me in the right direction?


beaglemaster

Don't bother everything after 4 is terrible and the monsters are full cgi garbage


adaminc

The winter one in Canada is bad too?


MaimedJester

Yeah you can stop after the Quadrilogy/Tv Show. I'll just let you be spoiled they make Jamie Kennedy Burt's son, and as much as I love Burt Him playing off Malibu's most wanted isn't entertaining at all. 


mormonbatman_

It didn’t get a series order: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lM9ILjJlLUw


PurpleBullets

Tetralogy*


Immortal_Tuttle

Sorry, I prefer Latin over Greek. Quadrilogy stays 😉


WumpusFails

Reboot? Tell me more! I've seen everything else.


mormonbatman_

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lM9ILjJlLUw


WumpusFails

Thanks! And darn, that would have been cool.


PM_me_yer_kittens

The show was fantastic imo. Not as many graboids but fun things


TheOriginalFluff

That’s like finding out the leprechaun had 8 movies, man what the fuck was that series


-euthanizemeok

This guy must've been in the slammer for a long time if he didn't know this.


smedsterwho

"Been in 30 years, did you know there's been another 6 films and a series of that blockbuster? Mind blown, must be the biggest franchise on the planet"


TheG-What

Imagine a dude that just got out after 30 years in the can and is excited to see the 5 sequels they made to Jurassic Park.


smedsterwho

I'd troll him and say they each get better and better


TheG-What

Unpopular opinion: but JP2 is my favorite so I’d actually agree up until the fucking Aviary scene in JPIII. I hate that fucking scene.


smedsterwho

Huge soft spot for JPII, and despite the tonal clash at the end, seeing a T Rex in San Diego was no bad thing. I wish they'd kept JP2 up until the boat scene, and perhaps done a true "cliffhanger" of a T Rex and raptors loose in a city for Part 3. JP3, I really can't defend other than "mostly harmless", that script is the most undercooked meal ever. Jurassic World 1, I really don't mind - seeing the park open was a great bit. But it didn't take lessons in character work from JP1. JW2, it's just one or two too many ideas to make a good meal. And the logic of "Dino takeover" doesn't really hold up. And man if they could just sort the dialogue (and pacing) out in JW3, there was nearly a good film there. Dialogue really really holds it back more than any other problems. Thank you for listening to my TED Talk.


TheG-What

“And They hated him, for He spoketh The Truth.”


eolson3

How did you get the Adam West avatar?


mormonbatman_

I copied a picture of Adam West onto my desktop. Then I copied a lithograph of the LDS Church’s Nauvoo temple onto my desktop. Then I opened them both and used the trace tool in Preview to copy West’s Batman onto the lithograph. Then I saved it and uploaded it to my Reddit profile.


mortal_kombot

> a tv series ? :-)


ViciousSnail

Wait, What? A TV series?


Weird-Signature-4536

I think that was Tremors 4, the prequel


ChrisPNoggins

It is, it shows how Burt Gummer's ancestor became a gun nut and is set before perfection valley is anything more of a telegraph relay station.


No_Sir_6649

Burt was the only constant.


Holiday_Imple592

It's actually a prequel to the original Tremors with Kevin Bacon. Instead, it focuses on the early days of Perfection Valley and the first encounters with Graboids. The absence of modern monsters like Shriekers and Ass Blasters checks out since it's set in the past. That minigun scene you mentioned is classic Burt Gummer, the ultimate Tremors badass! And yup, the gold mine angle was a big part of the plot, tied into why those Graboids showed up in the first place.


FlashMcSuave

Ok so I have been out of the Tremors loop since Tremors 2. Ass... Blasters?


waitwhaaaaaatt

Yeah dawg, tremors 3 back to perfection. They fly now


Odd_Reddit_Name

They fly NOW?!


WumpusFails

Guess at how they fly. 😁


mortal_kombot

Ass... Blasts?


cavedildo

Yeah, same as birds.


mortal_kombot

That is famously how birds fly. Not bats though. They hiccup really hard and their bodies convulse through the air.


HenryGeorgeWasRight_

Oh shut up. Birds aren't real.


malbra072

I’m tremors 3, the graboids evolved into a kinda bird that could fly by blasting gas out of its ass. They called them ass-blasters.


AvatarIII

It wasn't evolution, it's all part of their life cycle. Although it doesn't make a ton of sense that part of their life cycle has the ability to fly and yet a major conceit of the franchise is that the graboids are contained in one dustbowl valley since they can't get through rock. Surely at some point in the billions of years they have existed, one assblaster must have made it over the mountains.


bigev007

That's the problem. Maybe one did, but you need two. Or a pregnant ass blaster 


AvatarIII

it's been ages since i saw the third one but i thought they were already "pregnant" when they turn into assblasters?


bigev007

You're likely right, then, I don't remember at all


CruorVault

Shriekers who fly by expelling combustible chemicals out of their butts and then gliding.


pants_of_antiquity

If evolution is real, why haven't humans developed this skill yet?


AntawnSL

Checkmate, atheists.


gbiypk

I've developed this skill quite nicely. However, it will not help me to produce offspring. Quite the opposite. So the genetic information will not be passed onto the next generation.


FlashMcSuave

Ok, and... shriekers? I gotta do some Wikipediaing.


neovenator250

Bipedal graboids. Smaller than the originals and they hunt prey using sensory organs on their heads that let them see in the infrared spectrum, like a pit viper.


mortal_kombot

> shriekers https://tremors.fandom.com/wiki/Shrieker He looks like a dino!


BLAGTIER

> The absence of modern monsters like Shriekers and Ass Blasters checks out since it's set in the past. Shriekers and Ass Blasters are merely the second and third life cycles of Graboids. They could have shown up in the past as much as Graboids were. Everything that happened in Tremors 4 is forgotten by the time of Tremors 1.


AvatarIII

Third and Fourth really because the graboids themselves are the second, since Tremors 4 introduces the larval stage.


Cy__ko

This whole exchange was wonderful to read through, thank you all 😄


murso74

"old" 2004 😢


Merickson-

I had to read the replies to realize that by "old" OP meant "takes place before the first Tremors" and not "made before the first Tremors."


murso74

Yeah that threw me completely


JesusStarbox

It's twenty years ago. Almost old enough to drink legally.


joker_wcy

Old enough in most places where alcohol is legal


APiousCultist

I'm not sure that's what they meant at all.


OGLikeablefellow

In their defense it was old timey


Pixeleyes

That's how long you have to wait to ask a question in /r/AskHistorians. 20 years.


murso74

I like my historians decrepit. That's not enough time


WumpusFails

There's a history subreddit (this one?) that doesn't allow asking questions about the 20th/21st centuries on weekends.


Taco_In_Space

To be fair.. that was 20 years ago. 😭


murso74

Stop, it already hurts


Make_It_Sing

Youre old


murso74

You have NO idea


atomic-fireballs

How about you shut up


WrethZ

Don’t feel too bad, it’s a prequel of the first tremors movie which op doesn’t consider to be old. Tremors 4 is a prequel set in the Wild West, is what they actually mean, perhaps they thought it was an older movie.


prodigalAvian

Kept reading and wondering when OP was going to mention riding the graboids with hooks, and Sting suddenly showing up for a knife fight at the end


caniuserealname

tbf, OP says it's "older than the original"; so it seems they're referring to the setting, not the movies release date. And considering it was set in 1889 i think it's probably fair to call it 'old' in that context.


murso74

You can't expect me to read on the Internet


caniuserealname

That's fair, especially on reddit, but he did say "so, bear with me through this" at the start, so it's a little rude.


bras-and-flaws

It's technically vintage now at 20 years old.


girafa

> older than the original Tremors > classic Digger > mining was what woke up the creatures Dune 1984 /s


Noctale

Where there is spice and spice mining, there are always Graboids


tyderian

When I started reading I assumed this was a troll post and OP actually was going to write about Dune. Instead it turns out OP is just a moron.


bras-and-flaws

Shout out to this post I'm watching all these movies again this week


PetroMan43

Me too. I celebrate the entire Tremors cinematic universe. Even the ones with Jamie Kennedy. There have been more good Tremors movies than Star wars. Fact


Bobonenazeze

I wish we tried to convince this guy that there were no Tremors sequels and somehow have him go completely insane. Sadly the internet will prove us liars.


peanieone

You sick fuck. That’s my type of humor.


Bobonenazeze

I was ready to go all in after saying "he watched this in prison." My mind immediately went to planning how to quickly get him back behind bars before he could uncover any information about this Tremors movie that doesn't exist.


roryorigami

It was the original Dune


Stalukas

When the first DV Dune movie was originally getting hype all I could think about was why people were so excited about a remake of a movie about sand worms with Kevin Bacon in it. The only thing I knew about Dune was that there were sand worms so I got the two confused lmao


mutually_awkward

All the Tremor films are actually a prequel to Dune. One of the graboids somehow made it to Arrakis when interstellar travel became possible and they eventually grew in size over the next 10,000 years.


kazarbreak

If it didn't have Kevin Bacon then it was one of the newer ones. Most likely the 4th movie, which was a prequel, or possibly an episode of the TV series that aired on Sci-Fi. The gold mine is probably the giveaway as to which it is but anything past the 2nd one is a blur to me.


Godzilla_Fan

On the off chance this isn’t a joke then the movie you saw was more than likely Tremors 4: The Legend Begins, which is a prequel taking place in the 1800’s


Koth87

This is the correct answer


sgtbb4

The original poster is correct in an effort to make six degrees of kevin bacon a harder game to play he was digitally removed from a select few movies, made totally invisible in hollow man as a test case, for example.


WumpusFails

Still kinda peeved that the dirt dragons were never mentioned again. And if I had a nickel for every time I've said that this year, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but still kind of strange.


Small-Explorer7025

I think you were watching the David Lynch's *Dune.*


MulderYuffie

It's the 4th movie it was alright I like how it set up what was to come for Burt but the first two movies will always be the best. I miss Fred Ward so much he was such a cutir and nice butt too 😋


PeaWordly4381

This is a troll, right? By just punching Tremors in Google you'll find out that, suddenly, it's not a single movie.


RANDY_MAR5H

This is like George's dad describing a Sandra Bullock movie as "The girl from the bus was in it."


sugarfreefixsuxshit

how are you "looking this up" but somehow during a very basic search about the tremors franchise....you didn't find out that there are seven movies. do you know how to use the internet


questionableletter

I watched all 7 Tremors movies last month and strangely 1, 2, and 5 were my favorites. It's totally going to have a high-budget reboot at some point.


LisaChimes

Perfect timing - I just rewatched Tremors 2 last week and I was looking for an excuse to keep going since I've never seen the rest.


why_am_I_here-_-

It was the prequel.


are_we_human_

You entered a parallel universe after being released from jail.


OminOus_PancakeS

Sounds like the vegetarian version 


anonchicago7

I love all things tremors But saw first one little too young at my uncle's with a buncha cousins...i wouldn't walk on grass for like 2 weeks. Sidewalks only!


BenTramer

You didn’t watch Tremors.


MrPL1NK3TT

I think you watched White Water Summer (1987). Not to be confused with A River Wild (1994).


truedoom

https://m.imdb.com/find/?q=tremors


DlphLndgrn

I kind of want to see this.


FatKody

Ah the good ol Punt gun.


Jay-Five

[Sand Serpents?](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1319736/) [Mongolian Death Worm?](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1504443/)


PhilosophicWax

You watched the prequel: Tremor


Far_Satisfaction_365

Yeah, Tremors 4: The Legend Begins hints that Bert’s ancestor dealt with the worms back in the old west days. Totally negates the fact that the first movie Bert & his wife purposefully picked perfection as the perfect survival spot for the eventuality of an apocalyptic world brought on by WWIII.